Comments on: Hillary: Still in it to Win it

By: Nurglitch

Nurglitch — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:53:27 +0000

So she’s a politician grubbing for votes, how about that? Seriously, can you imagine a better candidate for Senator McCain to beat? She’d be a greater liability to her own party than Al Gore and John Kerry put together!

By: NaturallyGay

NaturallyGay — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:58:16 +0000

From CNN’s Political Ticker on Clinton’s latest Michigan and Florida push:

“We believe the popular vote is the truest expression of your will,” she said. “We believe it today just as we believed it back in 2000, when right here in Florida, you learned the hard way what happened when the votes aren’t counted and a candidate with fewer votes is declared the winner.”

The New York senator made repeated allusions to the 2000 recount and proclaimed that the Democratic party, the party of civil rights, has a duty to count every vote to determine the true intent of the electorate. Moreover, she argued, counting the votes is a simple matter of American democracy.

By: Peter Hughes

Peter Hughes — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:31:13 +0000

#4 - Funny isn’t it that the political party that brought us MoveOn.org, can’t.

Regards,
Peter H.

By: NaturallyGay

NaturallyGay — Wed, 21 May 2008 05:41:40 +0000

I think Hillary’s motive are more ego driven than anything else, and it would take a near miracle for her to win the nomination. What interests me more is how she loses it and how she acts about it. If she pushes the Michigan and Florida issue too hard, she will anger her supporters when those votes aren’t counted, and they will not be as likely to rally around Obama, feeling that the nomination was somehow stolen. If she pushes the popular vote argument too far, she hurts the legitimacy of Obama’s nomination.

It’s 2008, and we still have to listen whining about how the 2000 election was “stolen” from Gore and how Bush didn’t win the popular vote. I expect a similar reaction to the Democratic nomination if things keep going in the current direction. It may end up getting Hillary supporters to stay home or vote for McCain, making the Democrats once again their own worst enemy. Hillary’s ego may end up being the Democrats undoing this election.

By: Gene in Pennsylvania

Gene in Pennsylvania — Wed, 21 May 2008 02:03:27 +0000

More Hillary supporters should go on TV and ask the drive by media MALE talking heads why they are so anxious to have the female canididate drop out.

By: Leah

Leah — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:27:45 +0000

35% that is a big win. There is no reason for her to drop out, sure a lot of superdelegates have pledged Obama, but they can change their mind. With all his crazy pronouncements, they actually may hold their noses and vote for her.

By: Gene in Pennsylvania

Gene in Pennsylvania — Wed, 21 May 2008 01:03:50 +0000

Holy crap, Hillary wins by over 40% in West Virginia now in Kentucky she is whalloping him by 36%. That can’t be right. How do Democrats wish this away?